The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media site over their nudity regulation policies. Specifically, Facebook took issue with Eve’s cartoon nipples, leading to the magazine’s Facebook page being temporarily shut down.
Facebook’s policies are clearly laid out in The New Yorker’s coverage of the incident. Naked genitals, butt cracks, and female “nipple bulges” are a no go for the site, but rest assured – male nipples are welcome.
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I opted out of ‘spacebook’ a year ago. This article has re-affirmed my decision. What a colossal waste of time!
Facebook are a prize example of unregulated corporate censorship harming the world. They are not the only example by far, but they are a bad one. Censors never consider the harm they do. Famously the female “nipple bulges†have caused them to delete pictures of mothers breastfeeding. This sends out a negative message about breastfeeding, despite it being known to be the best possible start for any child. How are US and UK breastfeeding rates ever going to improve with this going on? We have go so obsessed with breasts as sexual objects, that we have forgotten what they are really for.
Prudish nations have been shown to have much higher rates of teenage pregnancy, abortions and STI’s, e.g. America at 10 times the teenage pregnancy rate of Denmark! The Netherlands have reduced their TP rate by a factor of four in one generation by becoming less censorious of human nudity.
There is no-one we can report these organisations to in order to stop them harming us…
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